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Defense, pitching carry A's past Pirates, 2-1
Pittsburgh -- - Oakland's lone All-Star, Bartolo Colon, earned his 12th victory before the break, putting him in rare company. The A's waiting-in-the-wings All-Star hopeful, Grant Balfour, claimed the team's all-time record for consecutive converted save chances.
Neither would have happened Monday without Coco Crisp.
Colon worked out of several jams in the A's 2-1 victory at PNC Park, but Pittsburgh scored a run in the seventh. Then with two on and two outs, Andrew McCutchen hit a rocket to left-center that appeared destined for extra bases - until Crisp blazed into the picture and launched himself at the ball, catching it while fully outstretched just before it landed. Inning over.
A's manager Bob Melvin said he has seen Crisp so much, he knows when he'll be able to get to a ball or not, "and when he hit it, I didn't think Coco had a chance, really. ... Terrific. That was the play of the year."
Colon said that he thanked Crisp three separate times for making the catch, but Crisp tried to downplay it, saying, "It wasn't that difficult of a play. It was just a diving play."
When asked if he thought he had it off the bat, Crisp smiled and joked, "I knew before he hit it."
Balfour entered the game in the ninth tied with Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley at 40 consecutive saves, and like Colon, he also gave up a long drive; Starling Marte hit a ball almost to the base of the wall in left with one out, but Yoenis Céspedes hauled it in.
Balfour usually won't discuss his streak, but he admitted Monday that he was thinking about it. "It crossed my mind when that guy hit that ball," Balfour said. "You realize it's been a while since it's been done and Eckersley held the record - a great 'A.' I definitely respect what he did."
Balfour has 18 one-run saves while reeling off 41 in a row. "I love the challenge," he said. "I'm very happy to hold the record, it's been a while, but I told myself I can't let up. We want to keep winning."
The A's have won nine of their past 12, they're a season-high 16 games over .500 and they have their best record after 90 games (53-37) since 1990, when they went 57-33.
Colon, meantime, is the first A's pitcher to win a dozen games before the All-Star break since Mark Mulder in 2004.
"I've never had a year like that," said Colon, who has played 16 seasons and won a Cy Young Award in 2005. "This year is the best year I've had."
Colon is still set to start the Sunday before the All-Star Game, and because of that, he can decline to play at Citi Field next Tuesday if he chooses; he said he doesn't know what he's going to do. The A's strong preference would be for the 40-year-old not to pitch two days after a start.
"We'll see Sunday," Melvin said. "As an organization, based on his age and how much we lean on him, we'd like him to get the time off. ... But it's up to him; it's his decision."
Left unsaid: If Colon declines, he's likely to be replaced by Balfour.
Josh Donaldson drove in the A's first run off All-Star Jeff Locke with a sacrifice fly, and he has a team-high 58 RBIs, second among AL third basemen. Derek Norris walked with the bases loaded in the seventh for the other Oakland run; Locke (8-2) had an eight-game winning streak snapped.
The A's are 10-0 against Pittsburgh in interleague play.
All-Star outing
Bartolo Colon, the A's lone All-Star selection, put together an outing worthy of recognition Monday in Pittsburgh:
Note: Colon threw 108 pitches, 78 strikes.
Susan Slusser is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @susanslusser


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This week at the Community Market
Saturday's edition of the Starkville Community Market will mark the second to last market of the season.
The Market will be closing its doors for the summer season after Aug. 28. The Market will be open from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday at the corner of Jackson and Lampkin streets.
While stocking up on all the great produce, baked goods, and more this Saturday, market organizers encourage patrons sure to meet this week's spotlight vendor, Erin Scanlon.
She grows and makes all her goods at her home in the Oktoc community and has aptly named her business Oktoc Treasures. Here are her answers to the spotlight questions:
How/why did you get involved with Starkville Community Market?
Scanlon: "For years I wished there was an outlet for the surplus produce from my garden and the wild native pecan trees on my property.
"The taste of a home-grown tomato or native pecan just can't be beat, and I wanted to share this experience with those who have never had a chance to enjoy these simple pleasures."
Why should people buy from local and sustainable producers?
Scanlon: "There are obvious contributions the Community Market makes to sustainable living and a healthier diet, but last night I was thinking about another aspect of the Market, and that's how it connects us with centuries-old tradition.
"If you travel around Europe, you will find nearly every town or city has a square where everyone met to trade, socialize, and exchange valuable news and information. It was an opportunity for people from all walks of life, both rich and poor, country folk and city dwellers, to associate freely.
"As I watch the parade of people who pass through our market each Saturday, I can't help but feel that our Market is not just satisfying their need for fresh produce and beautiful handcrafts, but also helps maintain and expand our sense of community.
"It takes the full support of the community to keep the Market going, but in turn, the Market contributes to Starkville's image as being progressive, while staying in touch with its rich tradition."
What is your most popular product at the Market?
Scanlon: "I have always offered an eclectic mix I jokingly refer to as the Four P's — produce, plants, pecans, and pearls. It's hard to pick the most popular, because one week my potted house plants and herbs will go especially fast, other times it's my pecans and produce.
"I usually sell out of my produce, because I grow it in limited quantities. I raise those vegetable varieties known more for their flavor than ease of cultivation, and instead of using pesticides, insects are picked off by hand. It's very labor intensive. I always do well with my jewelry.
"In keeping with the spirit of sustainability, my jewelry is all restored, recycled, recreated and reused. One of the joys of being a vendor here is the number of friends who stop every week to visit with me and check out what's new. I love to see a piece I fabricated out of vintage parts become repurposed by one of my 'regulars.'"
Do you have any special products in the next two weeks that you'd like to highlight?
Scanlon: "I just started bringing okra to the Market and its going strong right now. Neither the extreme heat nor drought seems to have discouraged it. I know okra is hard to find in the stores, so I know mine will go fast this Saturday."
What's one thing Starkville Community Market customers don't know?
Scanlon: "After retiring from the Starkville School District, I enrolled at the master's degree program in history at Mississippi State. While working on that, I continue to be involved in various restoration projects on my antebellum home, which I have owned since 1991."
What are your future plans?
Scanlon: "I have been successful with my current mix of offerings, but next year I hope to plant more early spring vegetable varieties. I will continue to experiment with different kinds of potted plants, and will spend a good part of the winter beading bracelets.
"I will concentrate on jewelry for little girls, because they have so much fun trying on everything at my tables before making a selection."
If you could only eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Scanlon: "I'm a vegetarian, and I enjoy eating any kind of fresh produce. I'm especially fond of spicy foods, so I use a lot of hot peppers. I love pasta, and they say that the test of a good Italian cook is the quality of their marinara sauce.
"This is a meatless spaghetti sauce made of red, ripe tomatoes and just the right combination of herbs and spices. I grow sweet basil, rosemary and thyme to put in mine."
For more information on the Market, make sure to visit the website at http://www.starkvillecommunitymarket.org or become a friend on Facebook.

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fitting double din stereo query
DaShiner posted a topic in Ford Escort ClubNot sure if anyone will know the answer to this but here goes.... I've got an r reg 1.8 55d escort van, when I wanted to use my old car stereo from my honda civic in this van I had to buy one of those fascia adapter things that blank of the space left underneath the single din stereo but those adapters are crap and break easily and mine broke and the stereo never stayed in place securely so couldnt wait to buy a double din stereo so that I wouldnt have to !Removed! about with adapters to secure it. My fathers day present from the mrs and kids was a double din stereo from ebay (brand new in box), well chuffed but went to fit it in the van the other day and found it was the right size in width but not in height :o :( I think im gonna have to cut away the plastic strip that runs across the middle of the double din opening in the dash to get the stereo in, that's not much of a problem, its an old van so doesn't matter really, the problem is - I need to get a cage/fitting kit of some sort so that it fits in neatly, and secures the whole stereo somehow from within the inside of the dash. Anyone suggest any ideas, maybe someone has done this before and knows what kit I need or suggest a way of bodging it in there that will work just as well? Thanks DaShiner
DaShiner started following gearbox oil leak, fitting double din stereo query, buying a ford escort td engine :S and and 4 others
buying a ford escort td engine :S
DaShiner replied to DaShiner's topic in Ford Escort Club£150, is that the usual price you would expect for an engine with that sort of mileage vinny? thats not a bad mileage, I'd be happy with something like that for £150! what about recons mate, how much would one of them sell for £300+ maybe?
buying a ford escort td engine :S
DaShiner posted a topic in Ford Escort ClubHi, my old van is struggling since I put 17" wheels on it. I thought it would just slow the acceleration but improve top speed but it turns out that its just plain slow lmao. Its a 1.8 55d r reg and as you know they are slow at the best of times! so I'm thinking of maybe putting a 1.8 - 2ltr turbo lump in it to even things up a bit. Would it be a straight forward swap of engines e.g just take the old one out and put the turbo one in its place and reconnect all the hoses and everything back up? I'd probably have to change the gearbox for one from a turbo engine wouldnt I? Lastly, how much would I get a used or recon one for and wheres a good place to buy from? Cheers
personal note: never try and do this job without keeping an eye on your driveshaft!! this is why I had problems getting it back together, the driveshaft had slipped out on the engine side and somehow moved, luckily the bits and pieces stayed put so it went back together ok and the rest of the job went without a hitch. Why is it that the Haynes manual doesn't tell you to be careful with the driveshaft when trying to do this job, grrrr! if there was one of those little advice bits on the page that said "take care not to pull on driveshaft or something bad could happen" then it might help lol. Anyway, thanks for the advice Vinny I'll go get it tracked up asap ;)
thanks vinny. Ive done the same job before on my mrs old seat ibiza with not too much of a prob, tried for ages yesterday to do this one with no luck, got covered in dirt and sweat with no joy :( I'll try it again in a bit but I reckon I'll be back to ask for more advice soon lol. I will get the tracking done when I do eventually get the job finished ;)
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DaShiner posted a topic in Ford Escort Clubhad to try and replace a worn out bush on the drivers side so bought the whole arem to put in there. Can you tell me hoe to get the !Removed! thing on there? I bolted the arm up through the sub frame but when I tried to get the spindle from the ball joint end of the arm into the hole, it would reach, I checked the part was the same as the old one and it looks identical. Also tried putting the spindle in first and then bolting through the subframe but with the spindle in place the other holes wouldnt line up. Cheers
the garage fixed it in the end because there was a problem with the handbrake adjuster underneath where whoever owned it before me overtightened it or something, it ended up costing a bit to put right but job done and Ive got a mot certificate at last ;)
I changed the cv boot and lower arm yesterday so all thats left for me to do is the brake, thanks for that link mintalkin, I'll get the wheel off sometime today (in the rain lol ) and I'll use that info you gave me to refer to if I need it, many thanks mate!
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DaShiner posted a topic in Ford Escort ClubEllo..... I've ordered some long wheel studs from ebay, also ordred some 5mm wheel spacers and spigots so I can put my 17" alloys on the van. Is it hard to get the old studs out? it mentioned somewhere about presssing them out but a diy mechanic should be able to do it with no probs....is this correct?? thanks
at the moment its off the road as its a failure, got to put it back in the garage at partridge green on sat a.m to have the welding done and re mot. Ive done a n/s anti roll bar, that was an easy one, plus all the little blown bulbs etc, still got the brake problem and a cv boot to change plus a wishbone cos one of the bushes has gone. By the way the rear brakes are drums, do they still have pistons?? cheers
advice on rear brake problem
DaShiner posted a topic in Ford Escort ClubHi, not been on here for a while cos I thought my van has been ok for a while, but I went for the MOT yesterday thinking I would be coming out with a shiny new MOT sheet with maybe a few mentions on the advice sheet but in fact it failed pretty miserably from simple things like number plate bulbs to serious welding around the rear suspension mounts and also the passenger side seat belt anchorage which had also rusted quite badly :( There is also a problem with the offside rear brake application being uneven, I stayed with the van throughout the MOT so I saw him do the brake test with that machine with what appears to be a brake resistance meter (big dial with numbers and a pointer), I noticed each test the pointer got up to about 6 - 7 on the dial but one of the tests on the o/s rear hardly managed to get 2 (whatever it was, was a lot lower than the rest. My van has disks at the front and drums at the rear, what advice could you give me here please, is there things I can do to sort it out or will I have to get a new drum brake. If there is a way of sorting it could you explain, thx all ;)
gearbox oil leak
DaShiner replied to DaShiner's topic in Ford Escort Clubare they hard to replace mate? can a DIY mechanic do it easy enough?
Escort van engine help required
DaShiner replied to Vanman75td's topic in Ford Escort ClubI cant help you mate but felt i had to say..... I had a honda civic 1.6 vti saloon 170bhp, loved it to bits, only car I have ever missed :'( but then cos of growing family and work, I had to get rid, and get a van for work and a little run around for the mrs. Found an escort 55d with 1.8 dura De engine......good little van by all accounts but so !Removed! slow its untrue lol Someone has told me and I dunno if its true, that if you have a cav inj pump it will make a big difference by swapping it for a bosch one, not tried it myself but ask on here and someone will know i'm sure! The good thing is that these little diesel vans of ours are pretty good on furel eh lol good luck mate, let me know how you get on?
gearbox oil leak
DaShiner posted a topic in Ford Escort ClubAfter replacing all the cam,crank and auxhiliary seals (and camshaft after we snapped the other one lol) now it seems I've got gear oil leaking out from the gearbox somewhere, at least I think its gearbox oil, its clean looking, and smells different to engine oil? Can you gimme some advice on what it could be thats allowed it to leak and how hard it is to fix pls? nice 1! Denis (I'm not familiar with that side of the engine, my guess is a gasket or something has failed?)
more alloy wheel advice pls?
DaShiner posted a topic in Ford Escort ClubYeh I mentioned before about getting a set of 2nd hand masitaly 17" alloys for my van that didnt really fit properly and been advised on this and that i.e need spigot rings, longer wheel studs and a set of spacers, so Ive been checking some of the stuff and prices out online. I need to find a place that sells all of the above and hopefully cheap too ;) I noticed there are different types of wheel spacers which is a bit confusing, there are a type called hubcentric spacers...now, are these designed so you don't need to buy spigot rings to make the wheels more centered yet still work as normal alloy spacers? And some have got studs in, and others havent, which ones do i need?? lol metal or plastic spacers? and what size studs to get to fit as the ones I have still have 5 or 6 threads left when fully tightened. (I think I need spacers at about 10mm wide at the rear to stop the wheels rubbing )


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Life in a Grass House
Added Nov 18, 2012
by pambox
Sydney, Australia
I can't entirely claim this as a 'new' project, given the only things I did on it in the last five years were to sew the hem and the red sash. I'd made all the rest of it years ago, but wasn't completely satisfied. The pattern is Butterick 4513, one of their retro rereleased patterns, and I'm not sure if it's just the fact that the pattern is from 1957, or if they've done something weird in resizing it, but I didn't like how the bodice sat. It's a bit loose (late 50s – maybe I'm meant to wear a bullet bra with it?), and I might take it in later, I'm not sure. The back is elasticated and there is bias binding around the bodice edges and then tying at the shoulders. The dress has a lot of fabric in it – a hem circumference of 5 1/2 metres, but it's light fabric so it's not too hot to wear.
The photos were taken at Harvest festival in an art installation: a house made out of turf – hence the name of the project.
Material Notes
5 metres lawn cotton
1 metre heavy cotton
bias binding
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Dec 8, 2012, 12.21 PMby sewmehow
awesome!! i want a grass house!
dress is lovely too. ;)
Nov 22, 2012, 02.22 AMby Irina Schwab
Tell me abou hems! I never get them 100% because i lose my patience. Anyway, gorgeous dress and what a clever idea!
Nov 20, 2012, 09.05 AMby mollykatherine
It's Lovely! I really like the colour contrast :) I have this in my pattern stash and also thought the elasticated back waist was a little odd for the era – but it looks lovely on you!
Nov 19, 2012, 12.46 AMby MissHickory
I love the full skirt…. and the red contrast.
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Nov 19, 2012, 12.07 PMby pambox
Thank you – the sash wasn't part of the pattern, but I thought the dress really needed the break in the middle.
Nov 18, 2012, 11.44 PMby laikadoll
Naww you look like a perfect little garden fairy hehe
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Nov 19, 2012, 12.07 PMby pambox
I shall have to get some fairy wings then!
Nov 18, 2012, 07.38 PMby Irina Schwab
Hi Pambox, it is a lovely dress and lovely colour combination. Try pressing that hem until it is straight and flat life a knife's blade, then add a petticoat underneath (search online for a pattern for a 3 tier petticoat), and then you will make it look so glamorous. You are right, I can never get those Butterick patterns right in terms of size… However I have the opposite problem, the bust is too small :-)
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Nov 19, 2012, 12.04 PMby pambox
The hem definitely needs a proper pressing, but my goodness it takes ages to press so much fabric!
I do have a tulle petticoat, I should wear it with this next time.
Nov 18, 2012, 01.52 PMby Mary Athey
i.m glad you finished it as it looks so good on you x
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Nov 19, 2012, 12.06 PMby pambox
Thank you, Mary!
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nawick wrote:I cant "Fly" in the real world (unless I am in one of those winged metal tubes that store terror and other negative emotions.)
In the real world there is only 1 of me. I have no ability to switch from 1st person to 3rd (? Top down) view.
In the real world, I will never wake up, and you can't make me.
In the real world, when I break something physiologically, if I sleep and wake up, it is still broken.
In the dream world I do not age, I am always at that perfect age, when ever that was.
In the dream world I am happy (usually) where as in the real world I am simply not unhappy.
In the real world, the shadow beings, lizard people, cat people, hooded beings, blazing beings, Marvins and those others don't exist, or else are very well disguised.
In the real world, "changing the channel" only works for the tv, not for existence.
In the dream world, I have never had OOBE/AP.
In the dream world, I don't have tinnitus, carpel tunnel nor am I color blind.
In the dream world, when you hit the bottom of the canyon, you simply bounce.
In the real world there is science that is working on a way to perfectly clone
If that happened, you would be either in a coma or dead.
That is pretty much true
Ultimately it depends on your control in your reality, and usually how fate treats you in the real world on how happy you'll be in both worlds.
Obviously, in your own reality, you are creating them.
That's because the TV is a form of Multimedia a Multimedia Designer created. Ever notice you can things like that in a video game?
Hope not. That'll just give you creepy pasta nightmares. And that isn't real anyway. Personally I can think of things that are a lot more daredevil to try in a Lucid Dream which are a lot less intimidating than that. Skydiving, befriending the spiders, facing an old enemy, swimming with sharks, or whacking your date: http://www.whackyourex.com/.
In some Lucid Dreams/Dreams, that is quite the truth, isn't it?
Or you just teleport to someplace safe before you hit the bottom.
By the way your theory about some of us being never born is a plain immature comment. We were all born the same, with different abilities. And you are no different than the rest of us, you are just having very vivid dreams. If you are having any luck with some of them, they are probability Lucid Dreams (your last dream you spoke of was a fine example of a Probability dream of the past: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DreamingOfTimesGoneBy) And unless you provide evidence on the Full Spectrum camera and post it on YouTube for us to see, I am not changing my mind
Edit: I saw that post you made Hagart. It is unfortunate that some people can't accept NO for an answer. My friends back in high school and I all knew this: personal space is very important. We never got too close to each other. Just because I am a female doesn't mean that you come in and by force invade my space. If you did, I know how to fight back and would not hesitate to do so.


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After I posted my patchwork mani a few days ago, I received more than a few requests to do a corresponding tutorial. Since I'm still not comfortable with video tutorials, I decided that I would attempt to create a photo tutorial and that hopefully that would suffice for now. I think it turned out ok and I hope that I explained everything clearly.
If you guys find this tutorial helpful, please let me know in the comments as this is something that I can be doing on a regular basis, but I definitely need to know if this is something you all want. Additionally, if there are any of my older nail art designs that you'd like to see a tutorial for, please let me know which one(s) in the comments.
As a refresher, here's the patchwork mani that you all seemed to really like:
Keep reading for the tutorial!
What you'll need:
White polish (for a base coat), black polish (for the stitches), and 3 colours of your choice for the patches.
Your favourite base and top coat.
A detail brush (mine is from Michael's and the brand name is Simply Simmons) and a striping brush (mine is from eBay and you can get them for next to nothing). Instead of using a striping brush, you could also use the black L.A. Colors Art Deco polish (or any similar brand of nail art polish, as long as the brush is long and thin).
Step 1:
Apply your base coat. (I didn't think it was necessary to take a photo of this step.)
Step 2:
Apply one coat of your white polish. This will make the other colours you're using pop and will also just create a better base for your design.
Step 3:
Using your striper brush dipped into some black polish, freehand some stripes that will serve as the outline for your patches. You can make the patterns different on every nail but I decided to keep each nail the same. Your lines do not have to be perfect at this point as you can go back and perfect them later.
Step 4:
Start filling in your patches. A very important part of this step is that you make sure that you never have the same colour patch touching another of the same colour. This is one of the main reasons I decided to stick with the same pattern of patches on each of my nails - the pattern I came up with worked well and none of the coloured patches touched another one of the same colour.
Step 5:
Once you've filled in all of your patches, you can now go back and perfect your black lines. Use your striping brush again and carefully work on making your lines as straight and consistent as possible. This will of course be more difficult when working with your non-dominant hand but it gets easier with practice, I promise.
Step 6:
Now you'll want to use your small detail brush to create the stitches. You could use your striping brush again for this step but I found that that brush was just a little too long for the smaller stitches that I was going for. Once again, you can place the stitches anywhere you want but once I found a pattern that I liked, I stuck with it for each nail.
Step 7:
After allowing your design to dry completely, add a layer of your favorite top coat. This will make your new mani last longer, it will smooth out any bumps and ridges that have been created during the process and will also give your nails a nice shine.
And just so you can understand the versatility of this design, here it is using entirely different colours. A Polished Touch suggested using purple, coral and white in the comments of my original post and I thought that those would be nice to try so this is what it looks like:
The colours are OPI Alpine Snow, MAC Malibu Peach (much peacher in person, my camera made it seem much brighter than it truly is) and OPI Funky Dunkey.
So there it is - my first nail art tutorial! I hope you guys found it helpful and I hope I explained everything well.
If you try this design yourself I'd love to see it!


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Welcome back to our weekly Top 10 Android App Updates column, where we take a look at the most upgraded apps for the week. I've found that one of the best ways to discover useful apps is to look at what people are actually updating, and not focus on which apps have the most installs.
To find the most updated apps, I turn to AppAware. It's a great tool that shows me which apps have active support from their developers and sometimes reminds me of an old app that I might have removed long ago. Make sure to install it so your activity can help determine our weekly top 10 list.
This week I'm going to do things a little different. I normally filter out apps that have over 10 million installs, but I'm going to make an exception for popular apps that had significant updates. I hope you enjoy this weekly feature and discover some apps that you might find useful.
Pocket – Version 4.0.2
What's new in this version:
- Fixed:
- Select/Copy Text on 2.3 devices.
- Margins for smaller tablets.
- Duplicate items appearing when sharing.
- Video/Audio not pausing.
- Several crashes/bugs.
- New/Improved:
- Added a Report Article option in the Share Menu.
- YouTube viewing.
Read It Later was just rebranded into Pocket last week, and the developer already rolled out an update that fixed a bunch of bugs and improved some features. I had never used the app before last week, so I gave it a try and now I'm loving it. Pocket integrates perfectly with the built in share function of most apps and allows you to save almost any kind of content for viewing later. If you have ever been on your phone and wished you had your PC to view some content, then give Pocket a go.
TeamViewer for Remote Control – Version 7.0.405
What's new in this version:
- New Design
- Performance optimizations (full hardware acceleration and better performance on ARMv7a processors)
- Tablet optimized
- Improved multitasking
- Various minor bug fixes
This week TeamViewer introduced a major update to their Remote Control and Meetings apps. The main new feature was VoIP calling, but the apps also included a new design that was optimized for tablets. I've never used either app, but they are both free and maintain an average review score of 4.7.
Hooked – Version 1.2.31
What's new in this version:
- Improvements to loading and performance when device has low connectivity
- Resolves issue with G+ login for several devices
- Preserves user's session when returning back to the app
- We are working to only display games compatible with your phone, coming shortly! We are working day and night to address any problems, device capability so please let us know. If anyone still experiences any issues at all, please contact us at [email protected]
Hooked is quickly becoming one of the best ways to discover new Android games that match your liking. The app monitors which games you have installed and which games you play the most, then provides personalized recommendations for new titles that you might enjoy. The latest update is mostly bug fixes and performance enhancements, but give it a try if you have yet to check it out.
App 2 SD – Version 2.51
What's new in this version:
- ★ long-press an app icon will show More options menu
- ★ app total used size now also includes used external code and data size. Android ICS devices only
- ★ tapping an app icon on the PHONE ONLY page will show App info instead of opening Google Play
- ★ updated untranslated strings for Vietnamese, Russian, Polish, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Bulgarian
- ★ don't export system apps to the app list
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If your Android device is over a year old, chances are you have seen the "low space warning" pop up a few times. App 2 SD is a great tool from Sam Lu that helps manage your installed apps and clear up free space with a single click. People with newer devices might not find much use in this app, but it can be a lifesaver on older phones with limited internal storage.
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What's new in this version:
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- More offers for more cities, all in one place: Get offers in 40 US cities and access to offers from up to 30 partner deal sites
- Manage your notifications: We have fixed the disable notification option
Google Offers is similar to the popular Groupon that lets you discover, buy and redeem deals with your Android phone. It was initially only available in a couple of markets, but it has now expanded over 40 cities and includes offers from 30 deal sites. The latest version includes a fresh design that matches the Android 4.0 stylings. The annoying notifications have also been fixed and are now able to be turned off.
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- Database and memory optimisation
- Added Chicago Gary Regional and Lombok International Airport
- Added a "Done" button to the date and passenger selector as well as the filters.
- Added option to install the app in the internal memory when the space on SD card is not sufficient
- Added option in settings to clear all Recent Searches and Places history.
- Added new currencies: Argentine Peso, Jordanian Dinar, Bolivian Boliviano and Qatar Riyal
There are many Android apps for checking airline prices, but few look as nice as Skyscanner. The latest update reduced the size of the app and added several new airports and currencies. Skyscanner is currently available in 28 languages, so check it out before the next time you fly.
Business Calendar Free – Version 2.0.1
What's new in this version:
- the agenda, month, week and day widgets have been redesigned
- new design and transparency options for widgets
- the agenda widget now is scrollable by finger gestures for some alternative home screen launchers
- the agenda widget now has an option to directly open the event details
- you now can select default values for the options "Show me as" and "Privacy"
- the "Show me as" option now will also be synced with Exchange on the Samsung Galaxy S / S2
- some more changes and bug fixes
Business Calendar is a complete calendar application that synchronizes with Google Calendar and adds a ton of additional features. The paid version normally sells for $4.99, but you can get the ad-supported version for free. This new update includes a new design, new widgets, and several minor bug fixes.
TWC TV – Version varies with device
What's new in this version:
- Live TV on Android 4.x (Ice Cream Sandwich) smartphones and tablets
- Redesigned DVR manager interface
- Bug fixes and performance enhancements
Time Warner Cable customers can finally watch live TV on their Android devices with the latest TWC TV app. Live TV support is limited to the Motorola Xoom WiFi and Samsung Galaxy Nexus, but more devices should be added in the coming months. A local WiFi network is also required, but now you have the freedom to watch TV from any room in your house from your Android device.
AIVC – Version 2.1.1
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- Bugfix with Database initialisation
- Online-TTS Bug
- Nicknames / Aliases
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- => Call my girlfriend
- Choose search engine
- Choose Celsius / Fahrenheit
- Carbon Design
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Artificial Intelligent Voice Control (AIVC) is another Android app that lets you control your device with your voice. The free version is ad-supported, but you can kill the ads in the Pro version that runs for $2.99. Voice functions in the free version allow you to control call, SMS, email, translation, navigation, alarm, timer, app launcher, calculator, Facebook, web search, weather, and search images. The Pro version ads a couple additional commands including calendar, play music, Tv-receiver control and a dialog-mode.
TapTu – Version 2.0.6
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- Bug fixes
- Faster scrolling of articles
- Possibility of changing article font size on the article page.
- Increased size of small cards. You can change the card size in the stream options menu (the one at the right side of every stream title).
TapTu is another news reader app which lets you discover thousands of streams on your favorite topics from a wide variety of web sites, blogs, newspapers and magazines. It only has a fraction of the number of installs for the main competitor Pulse, but TapTu currently sports a higher average review score. I'll always stick with Google Reader and RSS feeds for my news fix, but give TapTu a try if you prefer a more visual approach to reading your news.
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Huck scientists find that spraying the leaves of Theobroma cacao trees with a non-toxic solution enhances natural disease resistence.
Cocoa farmers this year will lose an estimated 30-40% of their crop to pests and disease, and with chocolate prices having risen globally by roughly two-thirds in the past decade, concern is growing about sustainability in cocoa production, particularly the environmental impact and human health risks of toxic agrichemicals – organochloride insecticides and heavy-metal-based fungicides – used in cocoa production to fight pests and disease.
But Penn State scientists at the Huck Institutes have found – in a safe, biodegradable compound – a potential alternative to the hazardous antifungal agents currently being used to combat one of the most damaging cacao diseases, Phytophthora pod rot (also known as Black Pod), responsible for an estimated 20-30% loss in yield annually.
Glycerol – a simple sugar-alcohol compound called a polyol – is a colorless, odorless, viscous liquid commonly used in soaps and other cosmetic products
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Mark Guiltinan and Yufan Zhang, with Siela Maximova and in collaboration with Phil Smith of the Metabolomics Core Facility, have discovered that spraying the leaves of the Theobroma cacao tree with a low-concentration glycerol solution triggers the plant's defense response and enhances its natural disease resistance.
"Right now," says Guiltinan, "cocoa farmers are using fungicides and other chemicals that are very effective but are also highly toxic compounds, very persistent in the soil, and relatively expensive. Glycerol, on the other hand, is extremely non-toxic; it's super safe, super cheap, biodegradable, and it triggers the plants' defenses very efficiently – it only takes small amounts to trigger the whole plant defense system."
"The plant immune system," he continues, "is made up of many different components that – imagine, if you can – are like little micromachines; it has five or ten major components that all have little safeties on them, and safeties on the safeties, and things that turn them on and off and regulate them. Some of these components are always running at some level and the system is a complicated thing on a hair trigger, always ready to go, and you just give it a little trip and off it goes – all the little micromachines will be activated in a certain sequence and the whole thing takes off; so glycerol is one of the ways we've found to come in and trigger this to happen."
Glycerol – a simple sugar-alcohol compound called a polyol – is a colorless, odorless, viscous liquid commonly used in soaps and other cosmetic products and is produced in different ways, including as a byproduct of biofuel production where it is removed from plant or animal fats in a process known as transesterification.
"The production of glycerol from biofuels is projected to increase ten-fold in the next ten years," adds Zhang, "as high as six times the projected demand, and people are already generating excessive amounts of glycerol that they don't know what to do with. There are journals focusing specifically on the use of glycerol and other biodiesel products, and research is being done on all different kinds of byproducts from the biodiesel industry to find out what how these compounds could be used."
"When you make biodiesel, you end up with a massive amount of glycerol that nobody really has a good use for and it's super cheap because of that."—Mark Guiltinan
Testing the hypothesis
"At the very beginning," says Zhang, "we weren't focusing on glycerol's effects on the cacao plant's defenses; we were more focused on its effects related to fatty acid biosynthesis – but digging deeper, we found that glycerol also has an effect triggering the plant's defense response."
The Guiltinan Lab studies two main aspects of the cacao tree: one has to do with the quality of the cocoa solids and fats being produced in the cacao seed, and the other is focused on disease resistance in the plant.
Zhang was working on a project to better understand what genes are implicated in the quality of fats in the cocoa bean, so it was "somewhat serendipitous," says Guiltinan, that he discovered a paper describing a potential intersection with disease resistance: in some model plant species, certain types of glycerol-related fatty acids triggered the plants' key defense mechanisms; Zhang decided to test this on the cacao tree.
"What we found," says Zhang, "is that a low (100 mM) concentration of glycerol sprayed on the cacao tree's leaves is sufficient to trigger its defense response; the concentration you use to spray the plants is really important because higher concentrations have a really bad effect, causing cell death and lesions on the leaf tips."
"Normally," adds Guiltinan, "plants wouldn't encounter glycerol being sprayed on them – it's an exogenous chemical that we're adding – but it's a pretty small molecule that can go through the cell wall and membranes and get into the cell body."
"Basically," Zhang concludes, "all the leaf surfaces will absorb things – pesticides, micronutrients, other chemicals – and the plant's tissues will assimilate them, so we just dissolve the glycerol in water and add a little surfactant to break the cell extension on the leaf surface and make it easier to move the glycerol molecule into the cell."
Researchers in the Guiltinan Lab needed additional expertise in analytical chemistry in order to be able to assess glycerol's action in the cacao plant, and so they reached out to their long-time collaborator Phil Smith, co-director of the Metabolomics Core Facility.
Because Zhang and the other researchers in the Guiltinan Lab work mainly with molecular biology techniques, they needed additional expertise in analytical chemistry in order to be able to assess glycerol's action in the cacao plant, and so they reached out to their long-time collaborator Phil Smith, co-director of the Metabolomics Core Facility.
"We've been doing things with Phil for many years on different projects," says Guiltinan. "For this study, we needed to be able to detect and quantify specific individual molecules of interest in a big mixture of all kinds of molecules, which is pretty hard to do. "
"When you spray the leaves or soak them with the glycerol solution," Zhang explains, "you want to see whether the glycerol really gets into the cells and what kind of effect it has in the cellular environment. We know that when the glycerol does penetrate into the leaf cells, it converts to a bioactive form known as glycerol 3-phosphate (G3P) which then reacts with a fatty acid species called oleic acid and changes the fatty acid profile of the cells; so we worked with Phil, using mass spectrometry to detect the concentration of G3P in the cells as well as the changes in the fatty acid profile."
Analyzing these data, Zhang was able to determine a concentration of glycerol solution sufficient to trigger the plant's defense response without causing adverse effects such as leaf burn.
"Basically," adds Guiltinan, "Phil and his machines allowed us to detect and separate and measure the amount of these molecules, which is the most important thing – to be able to quantify them; it's not easy to do, and frankly, we couldn't do it without the Facility and the equipment and – most importantly – Phil's know-how."
Potential impact
As the Lab prepares to take its discovery to the field for trials, Guiltinan is hopeful that cocoa farmers will adopt the use of glycerol in their operations.
"Glycerol is really cheap," he says, "and it's going to get even cheaper the more biofuels are made. It's safe, biodegradable, and if it can yield good results in the field, then we'll have something really useful.
"Many cocoa farmers don't have access to agrichemicals or can't afford them," he explains, "and the only other alternative these farmers have is genetics – breeding for resistant strains – which is ongoing but pretty slow. There are tropical biofuel crops that can be grown with cocoa, so theoretically a farmer could cultivate a small plot and make his own glycerol. With the price of cocoa going up, maybe some of these farmers will eventually be able to invest more in other chemicals, but I think it's a great idea to start promoting safer ones like glycerol as a better, more affordable alternative so maybe farmers will begin to move in that direction; that's our hope."


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A jury trial has been set for a Seneca man accused of killing his girlfriend's 22-month-old child last summer.
A jury trial has been set for a Seneca man accused of killing his girlfriend's 22-month-old child last summer.
Zachary Rolland, 20, is expected to go to trial March 12-13. Rolland, is charged with second-degree murder in the June 28 death of 22-month-old Bradley Beck. The charge carries a penalty of up to 30 years to life in prison. Judge Timothy Perigo will preside over the trial, which will be held in the Newton County Division I courtroom.
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"The child's mother's boyfriend had the child in the shower with him," Copeland said. "He had been crying and everybody else heard the child quit crying. He gave a statement to detectives that he had struck the child, the child slipped out of his hands and fell and hit his head. That is the statement that he gave."
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You said you wanted to read 'Against Love.' I said Lorrie Moore had a character with a like-life instead of a love-life and you said that was good. 'Lorrie Moore is good,' I said.
A little girl ran by with about fifteen books and you said she was a genius.
We read a children's book that told children to eat hot dogs. And we hid it. And you pointed at Infinite Jest. I said my girlfriend read it and you got quiet. You were quiet and asked why I didn't live with my girlfriend. 'I don't have a girlfriend,' I said. 'You just said you did,' you said. I said I meant ex-girlfriend and a Barnes and Noble person stood above us.
The Barnes and Noble lady wore a kimono. She freaked out and gave a lecture about where to sit and we paid attention and she ran away. I looked at your face. I said something and you laughed.
You snorted when you laughed and I said that you snorted. You were louder and happier than before. I slapped you a little. I said I was wearing kimonos to work from now on. I brought you the punk planet with my story in it.
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You read it and I looked at the side of your face. The story had my ex-girlfriend and a guitar and you asked me if I played guitar. I said, 'I don't know.' I said I played drums. You said you were twenty-six and made minimum wage at Barnes and Noble and wore kimonos to work. And we used escalators to get to the first floor.
And we made it. I said I was going to pants you. And when we got outside it was nighttime.
Tao Lin is the author of three novels, two books of poetry, one short story collection, and a novella, as well as essays and articles for Vice Magazine, The Believer, The New York Observer, Gawker, and other outlets. His third novel, Taipei, will be published by Vintage in June 2013.
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ASOS is streets ahead of the competition in many aspects of ecommerce, so it's no surprise that it was quick to see the potential in social media marketing.
It has won numerous awards for its social strategy and clocked up millions of fans and followers in the process.
I've previously looked at how Walmart and Tesco use the major social networks, so thought it would be useful to shift the focus onto one of the world's most innovative social brands.
So here is a quick look at how ASOS uses Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+...
ASOS is one of the most popular UK retail brands on Facebook, with 2.2m fans compared to Topshop's 3.1m and New Look's 1.9m.
As with Walmart, ASOS posts two or three visual updates per day, including on weekends.
Nearly all of the posts promote its new ranges or sales items, and tend to get a few hundred likes and a handful of comments.
The social team does a good job of responding to user comments, even when they're just trying to blag a freebie.
Unsurprisingly, posts that include a question yield the most responses, with one 'fill the blank' query clocking up more than 200 answers.
Unlike Tesco, ASOS hasn't created any apps but instead just links to its photos and Instagram account. This is more in keeping with the ASOS brand, as games are often quite gimmicky so might not appeal to ASOS's target audience.
Clothing retailer ASOS maintains separate Twitter accounts for fashion updates and customer care queries.
This is a strategy adopted by a number of brands as it means marketing messages and consumer engagement don't get mixed up with responses to angry customers.
ASOS also maintains separate feeds for men's and women's fashion, though the latter is far more popular with 438,000 followers compared to the former's 20,000.
The main account is hugely active, responding to hundreds of @mentions each day, mainly from customers who are excited about a recent purchase. It's a terrific way of building a relationship with customers and improving brand loyalty, and is really just a new form of post-sales customer care.
Any product suggestions or marketing messages are largely lost among the huge number of @mentions, which means they don't come across as spam (though obviously followers won't see all the @mentions).
ASOS has also been quick to experiment with Twitter's new Vine app, launching a campaign using the hashtag #ASOSUnbox.
The retailer is offering prizes to customers who post clips of themselves unpacking a clothes order with the new hashtag.
Regarding customer care, the 'Here to Help' account takes the same strategy as many other retailers in that all queries are dealt with via direct message and a follow up call or email from customer services.
ASOS seems to have completely overhauled its Pinterest presence, as its oldest board was created around six weeks ago even though when I reviewed it in July last year there were 35 boards.
The strategy has also changed, as previously ASOS did a great job of posting content that linked to other blogs and articles. However, now a majority of the pins link directly to the ASOS site.
Furthermore, the boards now all contain the ASOS brand name, whereas they used to have entirely different names.
The overhaul was presumably based on analysis of how users were reacting to its boards, or the realisation that what the brand was previously doing wasn't having the desired affect.
Even so, ASOS now has more than 25,000 followers, up from 7,735 in July.
While both Tesco and Walmart have neglected their Google+ accounts, ASOS posts one or two updates every day and uses unique content rather than repurposing Facebook updates.
As a result there is a decent amount of user activity on its page, with each post achieving around 50 to 100 +1s and up to 10 comments.
It has 1.4m followers making it the most popular UK brand on the network. In comparison, fashion brand All Saints has 1.2m followers while Tesco has just 2,294.
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Nice post David, cheers.
I'm a social media strategist at www.branded3.com, and I not only need to come up with tailored social media strategies for clients of varying sizes in different industries, but also manage their pages across various channels.
... So - it's always so useful to see working examples of the creative ways that brands are managing to incite engagement with their fans and followers, as opposed to just using the same 'Like this' or 'share that' etc. etc.
Great stuff!
It's also worth mentioning the success that ASOS are having with their Instagram account. I, for one, love getting their quirky little image updates.
Like the imagery that you mention they use on Facebook and Pinterest, ASOS mix the content on their Instagram account. You'll find sale bargains, fashion inspiration and trend updates. For a self-confessed ASOS lover like myself, it's great.
Working in social media marketing, it's great to see a company embrace social media head-on. They're not afraid to try the latest social media fad. If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work. But if it does work, it can be a real success. Hats off to the obviously awesome ASOS Social Team.
I completely agree with Hannah, you can't review the ASOS social media without mentioning Instagram. I noticed recently that they now add product codes to their images, making it really quick and easy for customers and fans to quickly and easily locate the desired items online and buy them. This is how brands with a product like this can be easily monetising Instagram.
This is no doubt the reasoning behind the Pinterest overhaul too. Companies are keen to experiment with this in the interim, build up some boards and some followers by repinning content, but ultimately the more your pins and boards are relevant to your brand and product and make it easy for customers to be one click away from your website the better, that's ultimately where the value must be and the pay-back in investing in these channels.
Well done ASOS.
ASOS is one of the great examples how to use Social Media effectively and not only for the sake of it. Brands such as H&M have still a lot to learn from Asos. I think we can all learn the #1 rule here: when tweeting, posting, pinning keep in mind your customers not the money.
Got to admire ASOS and the way that they navigate through social media. What I like about their social media plan is how they have an individual plan for each platform. In addition to the way that they promote their products in a way that doesnt seem like selling, which I guess it the plan main objective of social media marketing. P.S.
Would love to see the best social media campaigns by small to medium business
Yes, they're doing a great job, but it helps when you have lots of resources and deep pockets!


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How to Attract Birds
There's no need to leave home to do some birdwatching! If you want to attract birds to your own backyard, just supply their favorite treats. Try different kinds of feed to entice a variety of feathery friends:
Bluebirds: cracked corn, peanuts, sumac, crumbled suet
Chickadees: safflower seed, peanuts, millet, black oil sunflower seeds, suet
Phoebes: wasps, beetles
Wrens: various insects
Cardinals: safflower seed, black oil sunflower seeds, berries, cracked corn, apples
Goldfinches: thistle seed, sunflower seeds, nyjer seeds
Sparrows: canary seeds, safflower seeds, millet, nutmeats
Kinglets: various insects, suet
Nuthatches: various insects, sunflower seeds, suet, peanuts
Many types of birds love insects and stay away from yards that use insecticides. If you want to attract wrens or other similar birds, try using organic methods to deter bugs.
Make sure your feeders are high enough that cats, dogs and other ground-dwelling creatures can't disturb them. You may also want to supply water, as it can be hard to find in some areas during summer. Finally, know that some birds don't live in certain regions of the country. Visit your local garden center to learn about which species live in your area and how to attract them to your backyard.


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As you pass the original stone gatehouse and journey along the tree-lined drive, between open fields, Norton House, Edinburgh hotel creates a striking first impression: an elegant blend of the classic and the contemporary.
Originally owned by the Ushers, the family behind Glenlivet Whisky and the Ushers Brewery, the house still has the appearance of a private country home. But, like one of the family's finest malts, it has improved with age. As well as historic features, it is now a place of stylish dining, advanced business technology and 21st century comforts.
This 1840 hotel is a romantic Scottish wedding venue and one of the best meeting venues in Edinburgh, thanks to its location, 5 minutes from Edinburgh Airport and 20 minutes from the city centre, and its tailored, all inclusive packages. Set alongside our hotel there is the Norton House Health Club & Spa, making it perfect for weekend breaks in Scotland and a great place to work out, relax or unwind.
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It's witch-nip cold out there
Isolated snow showers this evening, says this weather site. A low of five degrees.
Y'all drive extra sober on those icy roads.
I'm such a New Mexican babycry. When the wind blows on me today, I can't stand it. How/why do people live in really cold places?
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John Edelblut is a senior managing director for Accenture's Health & Public Service business in North America, responsible for helping his clients deliver better social, economic and health outcomes for the individuals and families they serve. Edelblut also serves as a member of the North America Leadership Team.
Since joining Accenture in 1985, Edelblut's work has focused on delivering innovative solutions for clients in the pharmaceuticals, consumer products and industrial products industries that transform them into the new digital world.
Prior to his current role, Edelblut served as the North America Health Services client service group lead, where he was responsible for four client service groups: Accenture Federal Services, North America Health Services, US State & Local Government and Canada Federal Government.
Edelblut also was the managing director of Accenture's North America Health Services client service group—Accenture's overall North American health practice—and managing director of Health & Life Sciences practice in Accenture's Products division.
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- Paul Jessup will send a box of F&SF backissues to the first commenter to the post I'm linking to. This continues the chain I began. Keep an eye on his site for some thoughts on the three issues he's keeping.
- An interview with John Crowley
- An interview with Alan DeNiro
- A new issue of Lone Star Stories is now online.
- Laila Lalami, author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits and blogger of Moorish Girl, writes in The Nation about Muslim women, feminism, and the "burden of pity".
- Last week was Television week at the LBC. Television was the book that won the vote to be the Read This! title for the quarter. Though the book didn't do much for me, the conversation about it was interesting, particularly the interview with translator Jordan Stump. (And, I assume, the podcast, but I haven't downloaded it yet.)
- Last year's Ratbastards anthology gets a review at SF Site. I have heard that this year's actually exists, but it's not on the website yet, so check back there hourly until it is, because the table of contents is full of good writers.
- Deborah Biancotti is the first beneficiary of a new project by Jonathan Strahan, where he offers a podcast of her story "Stealing Free".
- The young Samuel Beckett was a little twerp.
- I have no desire to say anything about the controversies over this year's Tiptree Award, but even if I did want to say anything, I wouldn't need to, because Kameron Hurley says it better than I could.
- Via Kameron, I discovered a group blog she's part of, Feminist SF -- The Blog!
- Miyazaki, ontology, and baseline reality
- Jeff VanderMeer gives us permission to fail. At first, I thought it was permission to flail. I scared my cat.
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The Jones Act covers crewmen who are injured or die through the negligence of their employers aboard vessels in navigable waters at sea or rivers, lakes, bays, bayous, sounds, or any other waterway. Unfortunately, not all accidents aboard floating vessels are covered by the Jones Act. To find out if you have a case, please contact the knowledgeable Bellaire Jones Act law firm of Stevenson & Murray. Your consultation and case evaluation will be free and completely confidential.
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"Freedom" Episode Recap is LiveSteve Marsi at . Comments
Finally! The magic officially returned to Grey's Anatomy last night, closing out a tumultuous fourth season in the most dramatic and romantic fashion.
Miss anything? Want to relive the action one more time? Our official episode guide to "Freedom" has all the developments covered from beginning to end!
We've posted our photo gallery, and are working on a list of memorable Grey's Anatomy quotes. Don't forget to check out our music guide, as well.
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We welcome all opinions, thoughts, criticism and praise in the form of comments - or by conversing with fellow fans in the Grey's Anatomy Insider forum!
So many break-ups, arguments, therapists and tension-filled episodes later, Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd are finally together on Grey's Anatomy!
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When he walked down a line of seated Occupy protesters Friday at the University of California Davis and shot pepper spray directly at them, campus police Lt. John Pike likely never thought that video of the incident would go viral on the Web, that there would be outrage not only at the school but around the nation, or that "casually pepper spraying cop" would quickly become one of the year's top memes.
All those things did indeed happen.
And as Buzzfeed.com's Matt Stopera tells NPR, when he and others look back at the end of the year to judge which memes took off, "this is definitely going to be one of the bigger, more important memes."
A quick note for the many among us who need a definition: As KnowYourMeme.com says, an Internet meme is "a piece of content or an idea that's passed from person to person, changing and evolving along the way."
In this case, as Stopera told NPR, the piece of content was a photo of Pike. It's thought that the first person to do something interesting with the image was James Alex — better known on the Web as Jockohomo. The meme basically started when, as Alex explains on his blog, he remixed images of Pike in paintings like Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic 1875 and Willard's The Spirit of 76'.
That's lead to others inserting Pike into classic works. "People kind of just went crazy from there," said Stopera.
But does this kind of "fun" trivialize a serious event? After all, as inevitably happens on the Web, the meme has gone on to have Pike spraying adorable little kittens.
There is that danger, but Stopera makes the case that the news about what occurred at UC Davis is now reaching a whole new — and probably younger — audience. If they jump from Tumblr posts with funny or sarcastic images to search for news about what's going on, they end up learning about what happened.
And, of course, it is a meme — which means it probably has a life of just another day or two. So if it does dissolve into the silly, it won't be for long.
Update at 2:20 p.m. ET, Nov. 22: Pj Seleska of San Bernardino, Calif., is being credited with creation of the Declaration of Independence image.
Correction at 5:44 p.m. ET. In an earlier version of this post we attributed the image of Pike spraying the Declaration of Independence in John Trumbull's iconic painting to James Alex. It's not clear who remixed that image.
And the spraying of protesters at U.C. Davis has also spawned a visual Internet meme, a repeated theme that's mutated and gone viral.
Campus police Lieutenant John Pike can now be seen embedded in iconic paintings, courtesy of photo editing software.
BLOCK: And, Robert, one of these caught my eye on Facebook over the weekend. It's Officer Pike making his way through the George Seurat pointillist painting from the 1880s, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte." He is pepper-spraying elegant ladies as they sit daintily under parasols.
SIEGEL: Yes. I've seen it. Here's another one making the rounds: Officer Pike zapping that howling figure in Edvard Munch's painting, "The Scream."
BLOCK: And Pike's images made his way to Andrew Wyeth's painting, "Christina's World." Christina is getting a face-full of pepper spray.
SIEGEL: And in the famous John Trumbull painting that shows the signers of the "Declaration of Independence," Officer Pike is there, too, dousing the document itself with orange spray.
BLOCK: You can see that image and the Seurat painting and find more at npr.org. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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First Black Student Admitted to CIU Recounts His Experience for Black History Month
By Bob Holmes
When Peter Spencer enrolled at Columbia Bible College (CBC) in 1963, he made history. Spencer is black. His admission to CBC, now Columbia International University (CIU), made CIU the first institution of higher education in South Carolina to voluntarily admit a black student.
Spencer, a Jamaican who attended CIU from 1963-1965 for graduate studies, returned to Columbia to address a Chapel service on Feb. 7 as part of CIU's commemoration of Black History Month. His appearance drew local media attention.
In the early 1960s, as the federal government began to mandate the integration of Southern public colleges, the CIU Board of Trustees was already grappling with the issue. According the book, "This Side of Heaven – Race, Ethnicity, and Christian Faith" by Robert J. Priest and Alvaro L. Nieves, the board voted in March 1963 that "in the future no one be refused admission to the Bible College on the basis of race solely," becoming the first white institution of higher education in South Carolina to voluntarily desegregate.
Spencer, a black Jamaican, began classes at CIU on Sept. 5, 1963. At that time, CIU President Dr. G. Allen Fleece reported to the board, "our first Negro student, Peter Spencer from Jamaica, had the highest recommendation and has proven to be everything we could desire."
In an interview during his return to Columbia, Spencer said he got along "splendidly" with his fellow CIU students, but there was "a little tension at first."
"But even those who may have had some reservations at the beginning became my best friends," Spencer recalled.
It was different for Spencer off campus. At first he had no place to worship on Sunday mornings because the white churches with whom CIU had a relationship would not accept him. Nor could he join the travelling Ambassador Choir because his color would have kept him out of some venues. But etched in his memory was the day he went to town with his white classmates and was refused service at a restaurant being told, "We don't serve your kind here." His classmates tried to intervene to no avail. So they ordered for him and they ate in the car.
Spencer, who was not discriminated against in Jamaica, called that experience, "shocking, humiliating. I felt insulted."
But in his Chapel address to the CIU student body, Spencer said, "These experiences were allowed by God to mold me and to make me strong to face the challenges of life, so I am grateful."
Spencer would go on to become a pastor and missionary statesman in his home country, currently serving as a member of the board of Jamaica Theological Seminary and chairman of the board of the Jamaica Bible College and Community Institute.
In 1964, CIU would accept its first African-American student, one of the first private schools in South Carolina to do so.
Listen to Dr. Peter Spencer's Chapel address.
For local media coverage of Spencer's visit, check out WLTX and WISTV.
Note: Dr. Peter Spencer was the first black student of African descent to enroll at CIU, not the first African-American.


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Matt is a Chartered Manager at ARUP with experience in a diverse range of business he has operated at director level for companies within the UK and internationally.
Matt specialises in business and operations strategy, modularisation in manufacturing & new venture development. In addition Matt is a recognised industry expert in Modern Methods of Construction.


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Bike-Sharing in Lyon, France. Courtesy Time Out New YorkThanks to Mayor Bloomberg's PlaNYC the new DOT Commissioner, and Transportation Alternatives, New York is becoming a more bike-friendly city, and more and more people are starting to bike regularly. Up next could be a bike-sharing program, which are already successful in many European Cities (Here's info about the Paris, Copenhagen, and Barcelona models), and newly implemented in Washington D.C. Everyone from city residents to tourists are nuts about bike-sharing: it's a cheap, easy, healthy, environmentally friendly way to get around cities. In NYC, where so many of our transit trips are short and congestion is only getting worse, bike sharing makes so much sense to me.
There's an experiment beginning July 10th to see what it could look like in New York. A "summer pilot program" produced by the Forum for Urban Design, the Storefront for Art & Architecture, and the City Bakery, the New York Bike-Share Project will consist of 20 bikes available for 30 minute rentals (for free!) at a few locations in downtown Manhattan, and an exhibition and discussions about the feasibility for a long-term project.
Your help is needed to make it a success! The project wants to know how New Yorkers would use these bikes for short trips--so go for a ride! Or, better yet, join me in volunteering: There are shifts available from Thursday July 10th - Monday July 14th. If you'd like to help out, please e-mail email@example.com. I'll report back with pictures.
Read more: Bike-Sharing Gets Smart, Time, June 12, 2008
Bicycle-Sharing Program to Be First of Kind in U.S., New York Times, April 27, 2008


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90 Years of Pure Riding Fun
90 Years of Innovation
90 Years of Adventure
The history of BMW Motorrad is an impressive success story which started almost 90 years ago with the development of the first ever BMW opposed-twin 'boxer' engine: it was on January 2nd 1917 that Max Friz began work for BMW. Since the Treaty of Versailles banned construction of aircraft and aircraft engines, he dedicated all his efforts to motorcycles. And he laid the foundations for an impressive history: he built the first ever BMW motorcycle, the R 32.
In the decades that followed, BMW Motorrad and its pioneering innovations became famous not just in off-road racing and on race tracks but throughout the whole world of motorcycling: from its innovative telescopic fork and the new "Earles fork" BMWs through to the first electronic-hydraulic ABS system for motorcycles, BMW Motorrad has demonstrated over a period of nine decades what perfect riding pleasure on two wheels is all about.
Whether the first ever BMW motorcycle to come off the production line in 1923, the countless victories in racing and rallies or the millions of kilometres covered by BMW riders all over the world today – BMW Motorrad is simply unstoppable. And its passion is a source of sheer fascination.
In 2013 BMW Motorrad celebrates a major anniversary:
90 years of history. 90 years of innovation. 90 years of being unstoppable.
And you can get an exclusive preview of the special "90 years" models right here: the rock'n'roll roadster R 1200 R, the distinctive touring bike R 1200 RT and the enduro highlight R 1200 GS Adventure. And there is another big surprise in store for all fans next year at www.bmw-motorrad.com. So simply drop by again and be sure not to miss out on any news!


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Experience with INTELLECT: Artificial Intelligence Technology Transfer
AI technology transfer Is the diffusion of AI research techniques into commercial products. I have been involved in this process since 1975, when the Artificial Intelligence Corporation began to develop ROBOT, the prototype of INTELLECT, a commercially viable natural language interface to data base systems which has been on the market since 1981. In this article, I will discuss AI technology transfer with particular reference to my experiences with the commercialization of INTELLECT. I will begin with the historical perspective of where the field of AI came from, where it is now, and where it is going. Next, I will describe my interpretation of the present market structure for AI products and some specific marketing perspectives. I will then briefly describe the product INTELLECT and its capabilities as an example of a state-of-the-art commercial system. Next, I will describe some of the experiences, which I think are typical, that my company has encountered in commercialize their systems.
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Texas state government is an enormously complex undertaking, including everything from road construction to professional licensing, from prisons to university research. It's a more than $110 billion-a-year enterprise that relies on funding from a variety of sources, including about $50 billion annually that the Texas Comptroller's office collects from more than 60 separate taxes, fees and assessments.
In 2015, the Texas Legislature passed House Bill 855, which requires state agencies to publish a list of the three most commonly used Web browsers on their websites. The Texas Comptroller's most commonly used Web browsers are Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apple Safari.
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